Step 1 — Create your project

You are opening a small online store API called Pionia Shop. This step creates the empty project on your machine — about five minutes.

What you will learn#

• Install the official app template with Composer
• Recognize the folders you will use in every later step

Create pionia-shop#

composer create-project pionia/pionia-app pionia-shop
cd pionia-shop

You now have:

Set the store name in environment/.env:

APP_NAME=Pionia Shop
PORT=8000

Common mistakes#

• Creating the project in a nested folder you did not intend — check pwd after cd
• Skipping cd pionia-shop — later php pionia commands must run from the app root